Colombian chicken sancocho

  • Lactose free
  • Gluten free

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for lunch

Less suited for dinner.

Hearty Colombian chicken soup with potatoes, sweet potato, banana and corn.

8 servingsFinal yield 4,320 g

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Ingredients

  • 900 gChicken, broilers or fryers, thigh, meat and skin, raw
  • 500 gPotatoes, flesh and skin, raw
  • 400 gSweet potato, raw, unprepared (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)
  • 300 gBananas, raw
  • 500 gCorn, sweet, yellow, raw
  • 160 gOnions, raw
  • 1,700 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 7 gSalt, table

Method

  1. Divide chicken into eight smaller pieces; cut potatoes, sweet potato, banana and corn into large pieces.
  2. Bring chicken, onion, 1700 g water and salt to 95 °C and cook covered 45 minutes; meat must reach 74 °C.
  3. Add the potatoes and sweet potatoes and cook covered for 15 minutes at 95 °C.
  4. Add the banana and corn and cook covered for another 12 minutes. Serve with all the broth.

Recipe tradition

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
3,479 kcal
Protein
186.6 g
Fat
158 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
347.1 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
43 g
Saturated fatty acids
42.9 g
Sodium
3,844.5 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
9.6 g

Per serving

Energy
434.9 kcal
Protein
23.3 g
Fat
19.8 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
43.4 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
5.4 g
Saturated fatty acids
5.4 g
Sodium
480.6 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
1.2 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
80.5 kcal
Protein
4.3 g
Fat
3.7 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
8 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
1 g
Saturated fatty acids
0.99 g
Sodium
89 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.22 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains none of the 14 main allergens.

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal